The Apple I was a very early consumer microcomputer. The PC term was not in vogue then, and really only came into vogue in 1982 with IBM's "PC". The term PC (personal computer) came into common usage only to describe the IBM-PC compatibility line. Apple stayed away from this, and as a result they really are only a very recent player in the PC market due to the Intel Bootcamp macs.
I looked it up. I had forgotten the "home computer" category, which was a subset of "microcomputers" in the time from 1977 to 1982. The VAX was actually a minicomputer. See this page which sets straight the confusion between microcomputers (PET, AIM, Apple//) and minicomputers (VAX, PDP-8/i, etc.)
During the "home computer" era, the terms "microcomputer" and "home computer" were used very commonly for the Apple 2 line and its competitors. The term "personal computer" wasn't really used for any of it other than in rare instances.
"To claim that the company which coined the term "personal computer" back in the 70ies for their Apple ][ never actually sold a PC is somewhat ironic."
Actually, if you look it up, the term "personal computer" was coined in the early 1960s, but was hardly used until the IBM-PC.
"To call Wintel machines is a quite recent development"
The term "Wintel" never quite fit: half run AMD now, and for the first few years, PCs did not even run Windows. Besides, this "recent" you refer to started in 1981: a mere 4 years after the Apple ][ microcomputer came out. The standard term is "PC", not "Wintel".
" It wasn't until the early nineties that PC was a synonym for IBM compatible (but by then IBM was no longer the trendsetter in the business)."
Prior to this (and it was earlier than the mid-1990s), the term PC was used primarily only to refer to the IBM-PC (and AT, etc). The others (Apple, Commodore, Atari, TI) were called microcomputers.
"Instead of creating huge new regulations, why not simply force manufacturers to stop making machines that contain toxic chemicals? Is it really not possible to make a computer that doesn't contain lead, mercury, or cadmium?"
Tell me, Professor, how fast is the connection on your coconut-and-bamboo computer?
"fool, Apple INVENTED the PC...a little box called the Apple II"
I know it is a long time ago and easy to forget, but there were a lot of other companies around then. Commodore's PET came out about the same time as the Apple II. The TRS-80 came out a couple months after. There are likely other earlier models I'm probably forgetting. They were called "microcomputers" at that time. The marketing term "personal computer" was introduced a little later, but it never really caught on until the IBM-PC. Also, if you actually did recall the Apple II, it was hardly a "little box" (being bulky and heavy).
"about a year or so after they made one of the most popular microprocessors in early history, a naked board with a 6502 on it"
Contrary to this alternate history, a naked board with a chip on it is not a microprocessor. The chip itself happened to be. It (the 6502 itself) was invented by MOS. There were other machines along with the Apple 1 (at that time) that made use of it. Apple was one of a few early microcomputer companies in the pre-PC era, but that is about it.
You are using it the way few others use it. See the Apple ad campaign that compared Macs to PCs (not to "other" PCs). Check all the software that has been sold in different versions: mac version vs pc version. "Personal computer" has not been a generic term since the early 1980s when, for better or worse, IBM hijacked it. You are right, though, about the new i386 machines that do Bootcamp....which pretty much means that Apple has stepped into the PC market for the first time after all these years.
I suppose that the new Intel-based bootcamp machines might count. However, they are a recent phenomenon. Until recently, the Apple line-up was completely PC free. Sorry, I did not want to bother to install a Quicktime driver in order to see the.mov file.
Ah. You might have also heard of the secret Apple Ultra-Cube project. An amazing revolutionary project that was revolutionary because not only did not come without a floppy drive, it came without USB and CD/DVD as well (in order for Apple to force us to leave behind clumsy legacy storage). Driver problems were a thing of the past: it interfaced equally well with ANY peripheral hardware available. The amazingly simple interface design completely got rid of cable-clutter. It was hard to steal due to ingeniously designed mass properties that made people tend to leave it where it was installed. It was completely impervious to any malware. They pulled the plug on the project once Dvorak found out that it was merely a painted cinderblock.
I accept the right to exist of all peoples. If you were demanding that Thailand be "cleansed" from the map instead of Israel, I'd be just as "zealous" in depending the rights of the Thai's to exist. Good bye; having fun declaring nations "illegal" just because you do not like the ethnicity of many of the people in the country.
"maybe all HTML-based e-mail should visibly disclose that the page contains "tracking" elements with links back to more information on what those elements do and what the privacy policy of the sender is."
Why would the sender have to identify email as such? The "bad" senders would ignore such requirements anyway. Realize instead that any email client can easily recognize such emails by looking at the links inside the body of the mail. This would be extremely reliable and foolproof (i.e. anything that uses an outside linking HTML tag is suspect).
"Some time in the future, we may have an email system that is simply composed of raw text which would be invulnerable to such exploits, but for now we can only dream."
I've even heard that someone is working on a revolutionary OS that runs entirely in text mode, and uses command-line control, and is completely impervious to web bugs, Windows trojans, and other such infestations.
Ship all email programs by default configured to not show images in the mail. That would be a start. I've seen some web clients already that automatically filter out tiny "bug" sized graphics.
You mean you are quite blatant about your assertion of the Jews being misrepresented in the media myth? Talk about prejudice.
"You seem to be completely blinded by prejudice that you think anyone opposed to an illegal state such as Israel must want the 'extermination' of the people within it."
Interesting that you have yet to name the law that the existence of the Israelis violates. For another thing, the Israelis are not going to vanish quietly into the night if you declare them "illegal" and decide to get rid of them to enforce this law. A huge percentage of them will fight to the death rather than get crammed into cattle-cars to be shipped off somewhere else. Yes, I admit a "prejudice" to recognize that those who want to wipe out a people are asking for genocide. Whatever happened to tolerance, and "live and let live". It must hurt to be you to have to deal with millions of people you'd rather have "gone" and they refuse to die to make you happy.
I was not aware that the antitrust settlement was a gag order that primarily prevented Microsoft from merely saying things (which are the three things you list). Sounds more like a gag order/ censorship package than any sort of antitrust settlement (which would be a limitation on actual practices, not speech).
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...and without the money, and without the license.
"I've seen anonymous cowards, and astroturfers, but never a poster who didn't exist..."
But have you seen the gastroturfers who appear on foodie blogs and websites with conveniently glowing comments about how great certain recipes and restaurants are?
"The Palestinians didn't murder the Jews - the Nazis did"
The Palestinian government of the 1940s did murder Jews: they were directly and closely allied with Nazi Germany, even to the point of engaging in joint military operations. The leader of this alliance with the Nazis was actually Arafat's mentor.
"The fact is that Israel displaced Palestine..."
Not really a fact, since there was no nation called Palestine to displace. Palestine was merely the name of an administrative region. In the 1940s, as part of de-colonialism, this region was to be divided into locally-controlled nations. One of them was an ethnically Arab place to be called Palestine. The other was Israel. Rather than "live and let live", the Palestinian leaders and their allies chose to instigate a war of conquest and extermination against Israel. (Interestingly enough, Israel's population swelled with Jews kicked out of nearby Muslim countries for the crime of being Jewish). I don't use "Jewish suffering" to justify anything. The occupation of the land that would be the nation of Palestine is justified by more recent events than the Holocaust: namely, the constant cross-border aggression and demands for extermination that forces the response and occupation.
The comparison to US and Japan at the end of WW2 is the most apt one. Japan had the decency to surrender, so the US ended is occupation, fixed it up, and left. The Palestinians have not had the decency to surrender. They keep "Pearl Harboring" Israel again and again, forcing response.
I have not made up one single "lie" to dehumanize the Palestinians. The only Palestinians I dislike are the aggressors (the ones who want to exterminate the Israelis, and to bring this about, they engage in attacks against them. Those people villify themselves. Also, every Palestinian who voted for the pro-extermination Hamas party villified themselves).
Did you even see that movie? It certainly wasn't pro-war. It was a rather interesting and provocative movie, unlike its pro-war, much dumbed down sequel movie which gave us "Rambo the pop culture and political icon".
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The Apple I was a very early consumer microcomputer. The PC term was not in vogue then, and really only came into vogue in 1982 with IBM's "PC". The term PC (personal computer) came into common usage only to describe the IBM-PC compatibility line. Apple stayed away from this, and as a result they really are only a very recent player in the PC market due to the Intel Bootcamp macs.
I looked it up. I had forgotten the "home computer" category, which was a subset of "microcomputers" in the time from 1977 to 1982. The VAX was actually a minicomputer. See this page which sets straight the confusion between microcomputers (PET, AIM, Apple //) and minicomputers (VAX, PDP-8/i, etc.)
During the "home computer" era, the terms "microcomputer" and "home computer" were used very commonly for the Apple 2 line and its competitors. The term "personal computer" wasn't really used for any of it other than in rare instances.
"To claim that the company which coined the term "personal computer" back in the 70ies for their Apple ][ never actually sold a PC is somewhat ironic."
Actually, if you look it up, the term "personal computer" was coined in the early 1960s, but was hardly used until the IBM-PC.
"To call Wintel machines is a quite recent development"
The term "Wintel" never quite fit: half run AMD now, and for the first few years, PCs did not even run Windows. Besides, this "recent" you refer to started in 1981: a mere 4 years after the Apple ][ microcomputer came out. The standard term is "PC", not "Wintel".
" It wasn't until the early nineties that PC was a synonym for IBM compatible (but by then IBM was no longer the trendsetter in the business)."
Prior to this (and it was earlier than the mid-1990s), the term PC was used primarily only to refer to the IBM-PC (and AT, etc). The others (Apple, Commodore, Atari, TI) were called microcomputers.
"Instead of creating huge new regulations, why not simply force manufacturers to stop making machines that contain toxic chemicals? Is it really not possible to make a computer that doesn't contain lead, mercury, or cadmium?"
Tell me, Professor, how fast is the connection on your coconut-and-bamboo computer?
"fool, Apple INVENTED the PC...a little box called the Apple II"
I know it is a long time ago and easy to forget, but there were a lot of other companies around then. Commodore's PET came out about the same time as the Apple II. The TRS-80 came out a couple months after. There are likely other earlier models I'm probably forgetting. They were called "microcomputers" at that time. The marketing term "personal computer" was introduced a little later, but it never really caught on until the IBM-PC. Also, if you actually did recall the Apple II, it was hardly a "little box" (being bulky and heavy).
"about a year or so after they made one of the most popular microprocessors in early history, a naked board with a 6502 on it"
Contrary to this alternate history, a naked board with a chip on it is not a microprocessor. The chip itself happened to be. It (the 6502 itself) was invented by MOS. There were other machines along with the Apple 1 (at that time) that made use of it. Apple was one of a few early microcomputer companies in the pre-PC era, but that is about it.
If the Venn diagram is saved as a GIF, it might be helpful to explain the guy whose "proof" was a link to a multimedia file.
Now, if we can get Spamhaus (or someone similar) to put HP and readnotify on its block lists...
You are using it the way few others use it. See the Apple ad campaign that compared Macs to PCs (not to "other" PCs). Check all the software that has been sold in different versions: mac version vs pc version. "Personal computer" has not been a generic term since the early 1980s when, for better or worse, IBM hijacked it. You are right, though, about the new i386 machines that do Bootcamp....which pretty much means that Apple has stepped into the PC market for the first time after all these years.
I suppose that the new Intel-based bootcamp machines might count. However, they are a recent phenomenon. Until recently, the Apple line-up was completely PC free. Sorry, I did not want to bother to install a Quicktime driver in order to see the .mov file.
"Ah yes, Amish OS 1.0."
Ah. You might have also heard of the secret Apple Ultra-Cube project. An amazing revolutionary project that was revolutionary because not only did not come without a floppy drive, it came without USB and CD/DVD as well (in order for Apple to force us to leave behind clumsy legacy storage). Driver problems were a thing of the past: it interfaced equally well with ANY peripheral hardware available. The amazingly simple interface design completely got rid of cable-clutter. It was hard to steal due to ingeniously designed mass properties that made people tend to leave it where it was installed. It was completely impervious to any malware. They pulled the plug on the project once Dvorak found out that it was merely a painted cinderblock.
"obvious zealotry for illegal Israel."
I accept the right to exist of all peoples. If you were demanding that Thailand be "cleansed" from the map instead of Israel, I'd be just as "zealous" in depending the rights of the Thai's to exist. Good bye; having fun declaring nations "illegal" just because you do not like the ethnicity of many of the people in the country.
"maybe all HTML-based e-mail should visibly disclose that the page contains "tracking" elements with links back to more information on what those elements do and what the privacy policy of the sender is."
Why would the sender have to identify email as such? The "bad" senders would ignore such requirements anyway. Realize instead that any email client can easily recognize such emails by looking at the links inside the body of the mail. This would be extremely reliable and foolproof (i.e. anything that uses an outside linking HTML tag is suspect).
"Some time in the future, we may have an email system that is simply composed of raw text which would be invulnerable to such exploits, but for now we can only dream."
I've even heard that someone is working on a revolutionary OS that runs entirely in text mode, and uses command-line control, and is completely impervious to web bugs, Windows trojans, and other such infestations.
Ship all email programs by default configured to not show images in the mail. That would be a start. I've seen some web clients already that automatically filter out tiny "bug" sized graphics.
"There's nothing subtle about what I said"
You mean you are quite blatant about your assertion of the Jews being misrepresented in the media myth? Talk about prejudice.
"You seem to be completely blinded by prejudice that you think anyone opposed to an illegal state such as Israel must want the 'extermination' of the people within it."
Interesting that you have yet to name the law that the existence of the Israelis violates. For another thing, the Israelis are not going to vanish quietly into the night if you declare them "illegal" and decide to get rid of them to enforce this law. A huge percentage of them will fight to the death rather than get crammed into cattle-cars to be shipped off somewhere else. Yes, I admit a "prejudice" to recognize that those who want to wipe out a people are asking for genocide. Whatever happened to tolerance, and "live and let live". It must hurt to be you to have to deal with millions of people you'd rather have "gone" and they refuse to die to make you happy.
"iPod wasn't the first MP3 player on the market, neither was MacOS."
Where did the article say that Apple was first with either?
The article called Apple a minor player in the PC industry. Yes, I'll say 0% (Apple has yet to market a PC) is a rather small share.
I was not aware that the antitrust settlement was a gag order that primarily prevented Microsoft from merely saying things (which are the three things you list). Sounds more like a gag order/ censorship package than any sort of antitrust settlement (which would be a limitation on actual practices, not speech).
...and without the money, and without the license.
Sounds great, aside from the name that would make it sound like a version of Noxzema but for smallpox scars.
"I've seen anonymous cowards, and astroturfers, but never a poster who didn't exist..."
But have you seen the gastroturfers who appear on foodie blogs and websites with conveniently glowing comments about how great certain recipes and restaurants are?
"I'm thinking Katie Couric doing an interview with Stephen Hawking should happen."
Let me know her skirt length and maybe I'll decide then.
"The Palestinians didn't murder the Jews - the Nazis did"
The Palestinian government of the 1940s did murder Jews: they were directly and closely allied with Nazi Germany, even to the point of engaging in joint military operations. The leader of this alliance with the Nazis was actually Arafat's mentor.
"The fact is that Israel displaced Palestine..."
Not really a fact, since there was no nation called Palestine to displace. Palestine was merely the name of an administrative region. In the 1940s, as part of de-colonialism, this region was to be divided into locally-controlled nations. One of them was an ethnically Arab place to be called Palestine. The other was Israel. Rather than "live and let live", the Palestinian leaders and their allies chose to instigate a war of conquest and extermination against Israel. (Interestingly enough, Israel's population swelled with Jews kicked out of nearby Muslim countries for the crime of being Jewish). I don't use "Jewish suffering" to justify anything. The occupation of the land that would be the nation of Palestine is justified by more recent events than the Holocaust: namely, the constant cross-border aggression and demands for extermination that forces the response and occupation.
The comparison to US and Japan at the end of WW2 is the most apt one. Japan had the decency to surrender, so the US ended is occupation, fixed it up, and left. The Palestinians have not had the decency to surrender. They keep "Pearl Harboring" Israel again and again, forcing response.
I have not made up one single "lie" to dehumanize the Palestinians. The only Palestinians I dislike are the aggressors (the ones who want to exterminate the Israelis, and to bring this about, they engage in attacks against them. Those people villify themselves. Also, every Palestinian who voted for the pro-extermination Hamas party villified themselves).
Nor do I like to use the "foe" flag so lightly.
Did you even see that movie? It certainly wasn't pro-war. It was a rather interesting and provocative movie, unlike its pro-war, much dumbed down sequel movie which gave us "Rambo the pop culture and political icon".